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Season 5 - Episode 4 - Mental health is a daily thing · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my Chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast.
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  To. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. I just was watching the weather.
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  Now, every morning I could log into an app to look at the
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  weather, but we have a very local station that does an
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  excellent job nailing the weather in the particular
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  weirdness that we have here. So I've clicked on the TVI turn
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  it on. I don't watch the news because
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  it never has good news. At least this station sometimes
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  has more good news. But I click it on and they're
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  doing a segment on mental health and they're talking about how
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  important mental health is. And they're saying that this
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  mental health crisis that this country is going through, or not
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  just our country, but many countries is, you know, this
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  time of year, we should really take a look at our mental
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  health. And I'm thinking to myself,
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  well, this is the first problem. This is the very first problem.
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  If we're only looking at our mental health once a year, of
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  course we're going to have a problem.
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  I don't care what you do in the world, but you have to take care
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  of your mental health just like you have to take care of your
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  physical health all the time. One thing that this farm has
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  taught me is if anything is neglected, even for a short
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  period of time, things will creep and take over.
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  And they are absolutely harder to get rid of.
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  So if you've watched or heard any of my stuff before, you know
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  that we have these weeds out here.
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  I like to refer to them as the devil weeds, that they look very
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  pretty. The colors on them, they're this
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  dark maroon with this green, and they're just so pretty.
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  But when you go to touch them, they are filled with thorns,
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  little spikes that hurt. And when they pick you, they
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  hurt so bad. They grow straight up out of the
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  ground and they grow like Ivy and they attack to things and as
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  they attach, they attach with their spikes, which is what's
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  even crazier. And they will choke things.
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  So the other day I was noticing how it had taken over because
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  everything's died back now. So I can start the process of
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  wedding and it takes a full like January will be an entire month
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  of cleanup and wedding and moving and doing things and
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  getting everything ready. And I, I went to this particular
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  rose Bush because I I it's off by by itself.
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  I love this Bush. It's it's probably the prettiest
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  picture I took the whole year of a rose came from a rose off this
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  Bush. And I go over and these thorns,
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  this, this devil weed that I love to prefer to it as is
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  choking the bottom of it. It's like wrapped around it and
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  it's starting to go up it. I had checked that probably, I'm
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  going to say maybe it was October, maybe it was October,
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  it could have been November. But I probably being really, you
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  know, scrutinizing myself, it was October and it had already
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  started to assault the plant in such a way that I lost a cane
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  coming up out of it. And it frustrated me
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  immediately. And I got so upset.
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  And then I was like, this is what happens when you don't
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  check things all the time. Now that's loops right back to
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  my conversation about mental health.
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  And I, I feel like this is one of the most important things
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  that we can work on in our success moving into the new year
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  is making it a daily practice to check in on yourself and see how
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  you are. You have to do it sooner than
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  later. You must do it every day.
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  You must recalibrate every few hours.
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  As things are happening in our lives, we have to check in and
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  we must take care of doing that more repeatedly.
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  We have no choice. So checking in once a week and
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  saying, hey, how did I do this week is great if you want to
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  just check the tasks that you accomplished during the week.
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  But I'm talking moment to moment, making sure that you
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  recalibrate throughout your day because this has an impact long
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  term, but the bigger impact it has is it erodes our good
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  feelings about ourselves, which then precludes us from getting
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  the outcomes that we want in in our goals and our intentions.
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  It it just takes it all away. So if you start sooner, you're
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  going to feel different. And I am just as guilty of this
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  as everybody else because I will drag things from one day to
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  another. I am better than I ever was in
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  my life at not doing that. But I can tell you it still
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  brings it over. And my weak point is always my
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  personal relationship. I'm the first one to admit that.
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  That's where it happens in my personal relationship.
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  If things are not good, I will clearly carry them over and and
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  I'm OK to say, say that to everybody because I want you to
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  know it's normal. That's what we do as human
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  beings. But is it good?
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  No. So do sooner, check insurance,
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  find out quicker. I actually even have it on my
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  daily. Like I have a new digital
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  journal that I'm using. I'm trying to get away from all
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  the paper so that it's I can bring things with me as I go.
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  And I got this little cool remarkable tablet and in there I
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  had I found this journal from somebody on Betsy and she has in
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  it and a great little thing at the end of every day.
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  She has this little thing that says little emojis that you
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  circle in like how you felt for the day.
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  And I thought what a cool little thing to do.
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  I love it. So do it check in every day,
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  even if you just put a little draw a little emoji in your
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  paper one do it because it really, really works.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed, happy day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.